Peace Poster Competition 2016 / 2017

The theme this year is "A Celebration of Peace"

Ringwood & Fordingbridge Lions Club is proud to announce that local students from Ringwood School and Burgate School were among those participating this year. Pictured here are the winning entries from both schools.

"I made the poster the way it is because bright colours represent happiness and happiness links with peace. Also a dove with a pencil means that you should teach it."

Bronwyn May aged 11 years from Burgate School

"I symbolised peace on my poster by including a dove and the world surrounded by the peace symbol. My poster is a celebration because of the fireworks. Fireworks are a symbol of celebration because we set them off at special times like Bonfire Night and New Year's Eve."

James Kennedy from Burgate School.

"I have included a guitar in my peace poster because it represents relaxation and calmness. I have also drawn hearts coming out of the guitar because hearts can show love and peace. I have drawn hearts coming out of the guitar because it looks like music notes but in a different shape. As well as that I have drawn people dancing on the world to symbolise friendship and tells us that we are all together in our community. I have also included a drawing of two people holding hands which shows love and friendship".

"I used fireworks and balloons to symbolise parties. I also used presents and hands holding other hands to represent parting together, and peace symbols as peace."

Josie Miller aged 11 years from Burgate School.

"To me, the theme means peace and love and I feel like the whole purpose of the peace poster is for everyone to symbolise peace in their drawings to show that everyone around the world can come together to create a peace drawing and by everyone coming together they can stop war."

"My peace poster is about music and love. I think love and music spread peace, music is like a celebration. The dove is spreading love and music."

Thomas Benton aged 11 years from Burgate School.

"This is a big peace sign in the middle of the poster and that symbolises a sun rising around the world. There are fireworks coming out of the world to show that it is a celebration. There are flags around it to symbolise all the countries having a party."

Grace Smith aged 11 years from Burgate School.

"The theme of my poster is basically a dove spreading peace over the world. To me, this is important because I believe strongly in world peace and everybody living in harmony. I think that the world should live together despite religion and race."